The focus of feminism in (digital) Humanities often looks at representations of gender within the field, gender issues and research practices and feminist scholarship for the digital age
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Dr. Kristen Schuster presents her ongoing work around unwaged labour and gender biases in the Information Management sector during the Covid-19 Pandemic. In this, she discusses Critical Feminist Theory, Personal Information Spaces (PSIs) and mixed method approaches to research.
This video features Laura Mandell, Professor of English and Director of the Initiative for Digital Humanities, Media, and Culture at Texas A&M University, discussing the flawed binary nature of stylometric algorithms used to detect gender and illustrates these flaws by discussing the work of Mary Wollstonecraft.
This video features Laura Mandell, Professor of English and Director of the Initiative for Digital Humanities, Media, and Culture a Texas A&M University. Laura defines feminism from a Digital Humanities perspective arguing for a need to adjust practices so that they are not replicating the sexist infrastructure of the traditional academy and business world.
